IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0366 KOS
Held at: Institute of Education
Title: KOSKY, Rose (1923-2003): (Barking Reading Project)
Date(s): [1970s-1980s]
Level of description: collection
Extent: 7 archive boxes; 1 oversize file
Name of creator(s): Kosky | Rose | 1923-2003 | educationalist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in London, 1923; worked in the Ministry of Information typing pool as a temp to the Soviet section, later becoming co-ordinator and editorial assistant, [1939-1945]; worked with a range of bodies promoting women's issues; worked for the National Assembly of Women, 1952; worked for the fundraising office of a charity for handicapped children; took GCEs, and later a BEd in psychology, at London's Sydney Webb College, 1960s; schoolteacher, mid-1970s; Barking and Dagenham Schools' Psychological Service, [1975]-1987; retired, 1987; died 2003. Rose Kosky was a member of the Communist Party from the 1930s until the 1980s, when she joined the Labour Party.
The Barking Reading Project was a project by the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, [1975-1979], which aimed to help teachers to teach children with reading difficulties in the classroom rather than referring them to external experts. The specialist teachers working on the project came from Barking and Dagenham Schools' Psychological Service, they were: Jo Addington, Freda Cookson, Beryl Cooper, Kathy Conway and Rose Kosky. The scheme they devised was aimed at children aged 7+, who had failed to learn letter sounds completely and were unable to use them quickly in blending tasks.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Rose Kosky, [1970s-1980s], chiefly relating to the Barking Reading Project, including schemes, cassettes, notes and teaching materials.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Original order. Unsorted.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of Reader Application Form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
A reader wishing to publish any quotation of information, including pictorial, derived from any archive material must apply in writing for prior permission from the Archivist or other appropriate person(s) as indicated by the Archivist. A limited number of photocopies may be supplied at the discretion of the Archivist.
Finding aids:
Collection level description available on-line at the Institute of Education website
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Donated to Dagenham and Barking Archives by the family, 2005.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from Dagenham and Barking Archives, Aug 2005.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Apr 2008